Not sure about that bit...
replyWhat is well known however, is that a bunch of Alpha engineers wound up at AMD, and a lot of that DNA went into the OG Athlon
> Intel developed QPI at its Massachusetts Microprocessor Design Center (MMDC) by
> members of what had been the Alpha Development Group, which Intel had acquired
> from Compaq and HP and in turn originally came from Digital Equipment
> Corporation (DEC).[8] Its development had been reported as early as 2004
QPI was Intel's answer to the competition AMD's Athlon / HyperTransport had created
The funny part is that arguably both HyperTransport and QPI descend from the interprocessor links designed for Alpha EV7
replyIIRC, the Sunway CPUs used in Chinese supercomputers have an Alpha-like design.
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